Aislinn

I’m not new to blogging but I had enough of writing the way I did, about the subjects I did and of course the consequences it generated. I had no business there in the opinion domains and I couldn’t stomach the lack of grey matter that abounds online. I have been super active with my band #Moonspell but not only. There’s now, at 43, a need to diversify and plan ahead exists and is more pressing while it also frees your mind for different things and activities where you might (or not) make a difference. Tired of blabbering, I started doing more. 

Together with a friend who’s also a business partner #Rastilho  I have formed a label: Alma Mater Records. First there was music. We joined forces with #Century Media and did a band edition for our 20th anniversary record Irreligious (1996) and also we printed an exclusive limited edition of Opium (the single). Both are now sold out. It went well. So we decided to bring something back into the scene and are now about to re-release another legendary album from Portuguese (Doom) Metal band #Desire (Infinity… their debut which gets vinyl and digipack treatment for the first time in two decades.) The response has been amazing and soon we’ll announce our first signing: a Portuguese female-fronted Death Metal band!

We also produced the release shows in Lisbon and Porto ourselves and are the official distributors in Portugal for #1755, Moonspell’s new album, and we surpassed the first weeks sales of the last album Extinct, which was sold here by Sony (!). We also printed a beautiful blue sea vinyl edition of this album. I  brag because it’s really happening: independence. 

We had obviously to move on to my biggest love and passion: books. This blog is now launched (I hesitated if #tumblr was like #tinder, but it was just a lapse of the tongue) to keep everyone au pair with my newly found editor activities and of course to show you pics of my esteemed personal library, write about books and what I am currently doing with my label.

We will announce our 2018 releases soon. There will be 4 or 5 books launched,  if time and investment permits. The goal of the label is to have music and poetry tied as one, so we will search for authors and unexpected writers who fit into the category. For starters. But as in the record label we are not to be limited to a format or a style. The idea is to keep our mind open and release culture into the world, doing our bit instead of bragging artistry online. 

The first release of Alma Mater Books will be my own anthology (Purgatorial) that contains the 3 books I have printed so far in Portuguese and that are virtually sold out (including the aforementioned anthology.) This will be the English translation/rewriting I did myself as it seems fit to finally make it available, self-edited and self-translated, to the many gentle Moonspell fans waiting for a chance to read my poetry. 

We have also secured the rights to the second poetry book of Till Lindemann (In still nachte) for Portugal, translated from the original German, first Portuguese edition ever of this great poetry piece; and will soon reveal two of our authors, better known for their activities and love for music and politics in Portugal.

Please consider this as a sharing blog, much more than a commercial extent of the label. I plan to receive here with hospitality, people who are genuinely interested in the Letters, with something to give, something to take. I will also not be bragging about anything, so please don’t confound my enthusiasm and vehemence over books with anything else.

That said and if you’re alright with it I bid you welcome to my Literature blog, Alma Mater books’ mouthpiece and I hope you enjoy our books in the future as well as the books I will share here with you and of course what I have experienced by reading them and how if affected my writing for Moonspell and other things I did.

Fernando Moon

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PO BRONSON

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1. Thank God for music, it’s their crack…. basically. 

2. When they’re quiet, it’s often mistaken for them being mad/upset but sometimes they just want to chill. 

3. Anyone who is not a Pisces will never understand how vivid their dreams and thoughts are.

4. They like to do meaningful things for the people they love.

5. If you make them feel good, they’ll make you feel good…. and vice versa.

6. They can be real smart asses when they want to be, a combination platter of sarcasm and thinking they know it all.